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Make a Movie in your Lunchbreak: Machinima Live UK, 2008 Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram (Moviestorm), authors of Machinima for Dummies, present a hands-on workshop where you will be able to make a complete 3D animated movie in one hour. All software...	12:00 @ Anglia Ruskin University
Riverside Screening: Riverrun UK, 2008 For the all-encompassing downriver experience, the ﬁlms shown in Riverrun will focus on artists’ engagement with water. What does water mean in the modern world: territory, non-territory, a...	19:30 @ Grantchester Meadows
The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924 * With live accompaniment by jazz pianist John Law. Often considered to be the greatest film of the silent era, Friedrich Murnau’s classic tells the story of a proud hotel worker whose life is...	20:00 @ Wesley Methodist Church
Time to Die (Pora umierac) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Poland, 2007 Adored by audiences at recent international festivals, this stunningly shot black-and-white film features a 93 year old Polish screen veteran as the feisty and spirited Aniela. Offset by sharp and...	12:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Dancing Forest Brice Lainé, UK, 2008 Long abandoned as a land without hope, Africa has battled to overcome the negative stereotypes that have condemned it to the periphery of civilization. The damning lie is of a people trapped in...	15:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
In Memory of Us (En souvenir de nous) Michel Léviant, France, 2007 When Michel Léviant made THE FAIRY WALL in 1994, a light but beautifully shot TV film deemed too artistic for television, he could hardly have imagined its future incarnation. Years later, having...	17:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Running the Sahara James Moll, USA, 2008 In 2006, an international expedition team of three men undertook a quest never before attempted by man: to run across the Sahara. Making its way from village to oasis to nomadic settlement, the...	20:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Karloff Double Bill: The Black Cat & Bride of Frankenstein James Whale, USA, 1934 THE BLACK CAT (CFF 15) Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop. USA 1934. 65 mins. Karloff is the evil architect, luring a young American...	22:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Life For Sale (Luftbusiness) Dominique de Rivaz, Switzerland/Luxembourg, 2008 Looking for easy money, three young dropouts auction themselves on the internet. One sells his future, one sells his past. The third sells his soul. What starts off as an unlikely trick turns into...	11:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Piano, Solo Riccardo Milani, Italy, 2007 PIANO, SOLO is based on the heartrending true story of the life of Italian jazz pianist Luca Flores. A tragic destiny awaits Luca on a road in Africa when, at a young age, he sees his mother die...	15:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Machinima: Screen Stories: Narrative in Games and Film UK, 2008 “We tell ourselves stories in order to live” Joan Didion. Narrative in games has become more sophisticated thanks to photo-real graphics, surround-sound audio, larger screens and professional...	16:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Derek Isaac Julien, UK, 2008 A lovingly assembled tribute to Jarman’s life and work – built around Colin MacCabe’s interview with the ﬁlm-maker at his retreat in Dungeness – Isaac Julien’s ﬁlm draws on the...	17:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
Edward II Derek Jarman, UK, 1991 Jarman was, despite – or perhaps because of – his iconoclasm, a genuinely English artist, and mined the canon on several occasions, here tackling Marlowe’s regal tragedy head-on in a visceral...	20:15 @ Arts Picturehouse
Savage Grace Tom Kalin, Spain/USA/France, 2008 Kalin's long-awaited new feature is based on the award-winning book of the same title, and like his earlier and influential SWOON, it draws on a real-life crime story tinged with sexual undertones....	22:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
International Shorts 1: Sensitive Souls Sotiris Dounoukos, Antoine Bourges, Vincent Biron, Myna Joseph, Grant Sputore, Vlamyr Vizcaya, Carlos Bedoya, Various, 2008 Globalisation conjures up images of bustling urban metropolises but this collection of shorts from around the world reveals the international language of cinema. Our first programme involves...	13:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Pageant Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern, USA, 2008 For 34 years the Miss Gay America Pageant® has been the premier pageant system in the art of female impersonation. It is for male artists who create the female “illusion” – no hormones or...	18:00 @ The Junction
Goodnight Irene Paulo Marinou-Blanco, Portugal, 2008 In Lisbon, an ageing English actor and a young Portuguese locksmith live finding ways to fight off the tedium of solitude. But their paths cross when Irene, an attractive Portuguese painter,...	18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Alexandra Aleksandr Sokurov, France, 2007 Perhaps most famous for his stunning feature RUSSIAN ARK, which was made up entirely of a 90-minute, continuous tracking shot, director Aleksandr Sokurov further strengthens his reputation as...	20:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Late Night Shorts 1 Jennifer Harrington, Davy Sihali, Fernando Cordero, Jack Wareham, Elle Martini, Various, 2008 A selection of mind-boggling chillers exploring the underbelly of modern society. A surreal world unearthed. CARGO Director: Jennifer Harrington. USA. 14 mins. Hidden inside a shipping...	22:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
A Life in the Death of Joe Meek Howard S. Berger, Susan Stahman, USA, 2008 Often considered to be Britain’s finest music producer, Joe Meek was a creative maverick with remarkable aptitude for making and producing successful pop records from his small studio in a flat...	20:30 @ The Junction
Stop. Watch. UK, 2008 Tuesday 23 September, 6.00-8.00pm As part of its INSIDE OUT season of events, Wysing Arts Centre presents new films by artists that address ecological emergencies. Animate Projects and RSA Arts...	18:00 @ Wysing Arts Centre
CFC: Censorship, Film and the British Board of Film Classification UK, 2008 Video Nasties, Pornography, Grand Theft Auto and Teletubbies. All in a day’s work at the British Board of Film Classiﬁcation. Find out how the BBFC gets to make its decisions at a special...	11:00 @ Arts Picturehouse